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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n719.a10.html
     Newshawk: Peter Webster 
     Pubdate: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 
     Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) 
     Copyright: 1999 Los Angeles Times.  
     Contact: letters at latimes.com 
     Fax: (213) 237-4712 
     Website: http://www.latimes.com/ 
     Forum: http://www.latimes.com/home/discuss/ 
     Author: Alexander Cockburn 
     THE UNABOMBER-A VOLUNTEER IN CIA MIND-CONTROL
     EXPERIMENTS 
     It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a.  the Unabomber, was a
     volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at
     Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
     Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, "The United
     States of America vs.  Theodore John Kaczynski," notes that at some
     point in his Harvard years -- 1958 to 1962 -- Kaczynski agreed to be
     the subject of "a psychological experiment." Mello identifies the chief
     researcher for these only as a lieutenant colonel in World War II,
     working for the CIA's predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic
     Services.  In fact, the man experimenting on the young Kaczynski was
     Dr.  Henry Murray, who died in 1988. 
     Murray became preoccupied by psychoanalysis in the 1920s, drawn to
     it through a fascination with Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," which
     he gave to Sigmund Freud, who duly made the excited diagnosis that
     the whale was a father figure.  After spending the 1930s developing
     personality theory, Murray was recruited to the OSS at the start of the
     war, applying his theories to the selection of agents and also
     presumably to interrogation.
     As chairman of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard,
     Murray zealously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward
     experiments in mind control conducted by Nazi doctors in the
     concentration camps.  The overall program was under the control of
     the late Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's technical services division. 
     Just as Harvard students were fed doses of LSD, psilocybin and other
     potions, so too were prisoners and many unwitting guinea pigs. 
     Sometimes the results were disastrous.  A dram of LSD fed by
     Gottlieb himself to an unwitting U.S.  army officer, Frank Olson,
     plunged Olson into escalating psychotic episodes, which culminated in
     Olson's fatal descent from an upper window in the Statler-Hilton in
     New York.  Gottlieb was the object of a lawsuit not only by Olson's
     children but also by the sister of another man, Stanley Milton
     Glickman, whose life had disintegrated into psychosis after being
     unwittingly given a dose of LSD by Gottlieb.
     What did Murray give Kaczynski? Did the experiment's long-term
     effects help tilt him into the Unabomber's homicidal rampages? The
     CIA's mind experiment program was vast.  How many other human
     time bombs were thus primed? How many of them have exploded? 
     There are other human time bombs, primed in haste, ignorance or
     indifference to long-term consequences.  Amid all the finger-pointing
     to causes prompting the recent wave of schoolyard killings, not nearly
     enough clamor has been raised about the fact that many of these
     teenagers suddenly exploding into mania were on a regimen of
     antidepressants.  Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine, was
     on Luvox.  Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and two students in
     Oregon, was on Prozac.
     There are a number of other instances.  Apropos possible linkage, Dr.
     Peter Breggin, author of books on Prozac and Ritalin, has said, "I
     have no doubt that Prozac can contribute to violence and suicide.  I've
     seen many cases.  In the recent clinical trial, 6% of the children
     became psychotic on Prozac.  And manic psychosis can lead to
     violence." 
     A 15-year-old girl attending a ritzy liberal arts school in the Northeast
     told me that 80% of the kids in her class were on Prozac, Ritalin or
     Dexedrine.  The pretext used by the school authorities is attention
     deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD,
     with a diagnosis made on the basis of questions such as: "Do you find
     yourself daydreaming or looking out the window?" 
     Ritalin is being given to about 2 million American schoolchildren.  A
     1986 article by Richard Scarnati in the International Journal of the
     Addictions lists more than a hundred adverse reactions to Ritalin,
     including paranoid delusions, paranoid psychosis, amphetamine-like
     psychosis and terror.
     Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns on the precise nature of the complaint
     that Ritalin is supposed to be treating.  One panel reviewing the
     proceedings at a conference on ADHD last year even doubted whether
     the disorder is a "valid" diagnosis of a broad range of children's
     behavior, and said there was little evidence Ritalin did any good.  In
     1996, the Drug Enforcement Administration denounced the use of
     Ritalin and concluded that "the dramatic increase in the use of [Ritalin]
     in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society." 
     Indeed.  Land mines now litter the terrain of our society, waiting to
     explode.
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